Nafed and NCCF have joined Delhi government to bring relief to people reeling under skyrocketing prices of onions. The Delhi government has begun selling it at nearly 400 outlets, including those of Mother Dairy, across the city at Rs 40 per kg against the current retail price of Rs 60-70.
Camping in Delhi to help government effort, NCCF Chairman Virendra Singh said that govt is not alone in its fight as consumer cooperative is making every effort to help the consumer out from skyrocketing prices of onion.
The onions were being made available at 288 Mother Dairy outlets, 85 Kendriya Bhandar stores, five Nafed outlets and 13 National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India stores, Delhi development minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said. Consumers would be able to buy a maximum of two kg onions at a time.
Earlier, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting and gave the go ahead for sale of onions at reasonable rate in the select outlets.
In the meeting, Dikshit instructed officials to keep a tight vigil on the wholesale and retail markets and told them to continue raids against hoarders and black-marketers.
She also appealed to public not to panic as there was enough quantity of onions available in the market. “Both the Centre and Delhi government have taken a series of measures and the impact has been seen in the wholesale market. We hope the prices will come down very soon,” she said.
Dikshit said arrival of onions in Delhi has increased significantly last week and price of the commodity is set to go down in a few days.
Officials said availability of onions at Azadpur wholesale market had increased significantly following raids at 123 points in the market last week.